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If you are going to develop a disaster recovery plan for your organization’s information system, in your personal opinion, what procedures should be included in the plan, what technology (backup, replicate, or any other technology) is suitable for your organinzation regarding budget, system scale or size, and people?

มีท่านใดเคยมีประสบการณ์ หรือปัญหาที่เคยเจอในการเก็บข้อมูลงานวิจัย อยากขอให้ร่วมกันแชร์ประสบการณ์ให้เพื่อน ๆ กันนะคะ

If you implement the High Availablity technology in your hospital information system (HIS), in your opinion, what benefits will patients and hospital receive?

For our discussion, pick one point from this paper ( pls say the page number or item number or both) and describe the point in your own words. You may be right you may be wrong, so let’s discuss in the group.

According to the principle of information security or CIA Triad, have you ever had experience about not being able to preserve the confidentiality or Integrity or Availablity of your information system? Please share that experience.

What happened?

How did it affect the system or users?

And how to prevent it?

Data such as name, date of birth, citizenID, Hospital ID, phone number are considered as identifiable data. However, sometimes even there is no identifiable data provided. With a combination of non-identifiable data such as age, sex, occupation…., people can probably identify you.
Let try thinking about the combination of non-identifiable data t…[Read more]

Please select one disease that you would like to have an early warning system. How the early warning system would benefit the surveillance of that particular disease?

According to the article by Thomas G Savel in the reading assignment, the CDC has a vision for public health surveillance in the 21st Century as:

“High-value data, information, and knowledge are exchanged in a secure and timely manner for use in public health surveillance tools that are powerful and sophisticated but user friendly to accomplish t…[Read more]

Please watch VDOs of public communication regarding COVID-19 situation from the leaders of two countries: Singapore and the USA. Then try to observe whether the two leaders are the good communicators or not. When watching the VDOs try to look for these recommendation by WHO in public health communication :
Building trust
Communicating…[Read more]

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)? Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns?

I would like you to read an article by the New York Times: New Delhi, Choking on Toxic Air, Declares Health Emergency

In Thailand and ASEAN countries, there is an increasing public interest in the air pollution problem. We have observed that the air quality is…[Read more]

Imagine that you’re analyzing survey responses with regard to the use of bednets for prevention of malaria. You find that a large proportion of respondents report not using bednets. However, you have no data about why they are not using bednets. What approach(es) might you use in order to figure out why respondents are not using bednets?

In the case study of the surveillance of melioidosis disease, it is interesting to see a large discrepancy of number of deaths between the national reporting system and the actual number of death cases from hospitals. We would not be able to recognize this until we did the evaluation.

What would be the consequences of inaccurate data reported to…[Read more]

According to steps of outbreak investigation, how could information technology be applied to assist the outbreak investigation process?

 If you were replacing an old technology with a new one that is easier to use, what would the TAM suggest about it’s relative usefulness? (i.e. should it be at least as useful as the old technology?)

What are some specific ‘external variables’ that you think might influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness of a new technology?